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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

How to Prevent Toxic People From Ruining Your Life

We’ve all encountered toxic people at some point in our lives. You know the type: the constant complaining and negativity. The endless harping and hand-wringing about some problem that’s plaguing them but never seems to get solved. Their doom-and-gloom just seems to suck the light and air out of a room and causes others to flee at the earliest possible opportunity. Toxic people can be exhausting, infuriating, and a major source of stress.

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

The Power to Change Your Reality

How do you find the power to change your reality and to remain true to yourself, when everything around you is constantly changing?

I was raised in a dysfunctional family. From the age of four, I...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

How To Manage Stress Caused by a Bad Marriage

If you’re stuck in a bad marriage, you may be feeling very alone right now, but the truth is, you’re not alone. Marital stress is unfortunately quite common and divorce is a sad fact of life for many...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

3 Tips for a New-Year, New-You Journal at Any Time of Year

We’ve just had a turn of the calendar page and a celebratory season with friends, colleagues, and family. For the first time, this year I purchased a set of plastic New Year glasses where the year...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

Why Exploring Your Work and Personal Personas is Essential to Your Growth & Well-being

Are you one of those people who seems to end up doing everyone else’s job at work? Perhaps you’re the nurturing type everyone comes to with their problems, including work issues. Vital tasks don’t...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

Listening: The Cornerstone to Journaling

There are many purposes for journaling---to keep a record of events, to heal, to vent, to create a vision for change, or to reach other mental and spiritual goals. When I took my first journaling...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

Tips for Handling Relationship Stress With In-Laws

Relationships are much like those famous Imperial Russian Faberge eggs – they can be incredibly beautiful but fragile. Handled with care, though, they can last more than a lifetime.

There are many...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys, Journaling for Men

Therapeutic Writing Saved My Life

“The pen is mightier than the sword,” I’m sure you’ve been exposed to these words at some point, but have you ever given the quote any real thought as to what means? How could a pen possibly be...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Therapy, Creative Journaling

Tips for Managing the Stress of Being the Family Go-To Person

Every family seems to have one. That go-to person everyone turns to when they need something, want something, have something that needs to be fixed or done RIGHT NOW. Some of us who are go-to...

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How to Prevent Toxic People From Ruining Your Life-featured
Mari L. McCarthy
January 31, 2019

How to Prevent Toxic People From Ruining Your Life

How to Prevent Toxic People From Ruining Your Life
We’ve all encountered toxic people at some point in our lives. You know the type: the constant complaining and negativity. The endless harping and...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
The Power to Change Your Reality-featured
Alison Laverty
January 29, 2019

The Power to Change Your Reality

The Power to Change Your Reality
How do you find the power to change your reality and to remain true to yourself, when everything around you is constantly changing? I was raised in a...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
How To Manage Stress Caused by a Bad Marriage-featured
Mari L. McCarthy
January 24, 2019

How To Manage Stress Caused by a Bad Marriage

How To Manage Stress Caused by a Bad Marriage
If you’re stuck in a bad marriage, you may be feeling very alone right now, but the truth is, you’re not alone. Marital stress is unfortunately quite...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
3 Tips for a New-Year, New-You Journal at Any Time of Year-featured
Melanie Faith
January 22, 2019

3 Tips for a New-Year, New-You Journal at Any Time of Year

3 Tips for a New-Year, New-You Journal at Any Time of Year
We’ve just had a turn of the calendar page and a celebratory season with friends, colleagues, and family. For the first time, this year I purchased a...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
Why Exploring Your Work and Personal Personas is Essential to Your Growth & Well-being-featured
Mari L. McCarthy
January 17, 2019

Why Exploring Your Work and Personal Personas is Essential to Your Growth & Well-being

Why Exploring Your Work and Personal Personas is Essential to Your Growth & Well-being
Are you one of those people who seems to end up doing everyone else’s job at work? Perhaps you’re the nurturing type everyone comes to with their...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
Listening: The Cornerstone to Journaling-featured
Anne Eston
January 15, 2019

Listening: The Cornerstone to Journaling

Listening: The Cornerstone to Journaling
There are many purposes for journaling---to keep a record of events, to heal, to vent, to create a vision for change, or to reach other mental and...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
Tips for Handling Relationship Stress With In-Laws-featured
Mari L. McCarthy
January 11, 2019

Tips for Handling Relationship Stress With In-Laws

Tips for Handling Relationship Stress With In-Laws
Relationships are much like those famous Imperial Russian Faberge eggs – they can be incredibly beautiful but fragile. Handled with care, though,...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
Therapeutic Writing Saved My Life-featured
Philip Swensen
January 8, 2019

Therapeutic Writing Saved My Life

Therapeutic Writing Saved My Life
“The pen is mightier than the sword,” I’m sure you’ve been exposed to these words at some point, but have you ever given the quote any real thought...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
Tips for Managing the Stress of Being the Family Go-To Person-featured
Mari L. McCarthy
January 3, 2019

Tips for Managing the Stress of Being the Family Go-To Person

Tips for Managing the Stress of Being the Family Go-To Person
Every family seems to have one. That go-to person everyone turns to when they need something, want something, have something that needs to be fixed...
Read More Details Click to view blog post

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